SafeHouse Denver

With your help, SafeHouse Denver provides emergency shelter, extended stay housing, non-residential advocacy-based counseling, and more to survivors of domestic violence and their children. Our ability to provide these often life-saving services for free is possible because of the generosity of our community. Thank you for considering a donation!

 Mission 

SafeHouse Denver's mission is to assist adults, children and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence.

SafeHouse Denver strives to:

• Intervene in domestic violence with services that empower adults, children and youth to live free from abuse.

• Prevent domestic violence through education efforts that foster and support a broad movement for violence-free communities.

• Facilitate an interactive, collaborative community response to relationship violence that identifies survivors earlier, makes survivor services more accessible and builds community awareness and accountability.

 Background Statement 

In 1977, five courageous women established an Emergency Shelter for women and children fleeing from domestic violence, calling it SafeHouse for Battered Women. In the early '90s, we changed our name to SafeHouse Denver and opened a non-residential Counseling & Advocacy Center to address the needs of those pursuing intervention services, but not necessarily emergency shelter.

In the summer of 2018, our long-term vision of opening an Extended Stay Program (ESP) was realized. The ESP provides safe, independent apartments for Shelter residents who are out of acute crisis but in need of short-term housing.

Since our founding, SafeHouse Denver has expanded education and outreach efforts, especially to bilingual individuals, low to middle-income individuals, older adults, teens, the LGBTQ+ community and other populations at high risk for domestic violence. Today, SafeHouse Denver is the only agency in the city and county of Denver providing a full continuum of trauma-informed care for survivors of domestic violence and their children.

For the past 47 years, and as we look toward the future, SafeHouse Denver has remained committed to providing high-quality, compassionate programs and services to survivors of domestic violence and the broader community that is ultimately impacted by this issue. We thank you for standing alongside us in this important effort.

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